Alan Shearer.
Apparently asked for the job prior to Hodgson. He would be my first phone call this morning.
If we dont need English id ask Bobby Manc. He knows how to kick players up the backside - The FA would never appoint someone like him but those would be my shouts.
My first phone call would also be to Shearer. But it would be to ask him why he felt that he was any more of a candidate than the last time the FA told him to fuck off and get some experience. We can all sit there and criticize and analyse England, at least Southgate is coaching and managing and trying to make something of himself. I'm sure Southgate could sit in a studio and slate England if he wanted by he's keen to improve our younger side at national level. I still wouldn't give him the job yet but Shearer wouldn't be anywhere near my list.
We need to get a proven manager in, and get the next one lined up by working under him as assistant. Then get a conveyor belt in if it's felt necessary but only if they've got strong philosophies of how football should be played. It's no good following this German model (or indeed the Barca model) of promoting your managers as you do players, if those managers don't have a desire to implement their own brand of football.
We lack enough quality coaches or players in England, that's just the way it is. That needs to change first and foremost. Next season, the league is going to be fantastic - some great managers, and personalities which should lead to some entertaining off the pitch. Guardiola at City. Conte at Chelsea. Ranieri at Leicester. Mourinho at the rags. Klopp at Liverpool. Not exactly an abundance of English talent. And they're not taking up top jobs abroad either! Not since Bobby Robson have we had an English manager with enough reputation to earn a job on the continent. We're one dimensional in our philosophy of the game and we're incapable of doing anything other than trying to emulate other great teams.
Meanwhile our Rugby coach has come in and shaken the team up - he's given debuts to youngsters and binned them instantly if they've not performed. He's ignored names and played who he thinks works best in any given game, and plays each game as it pans out, not how it might pan out if he sticks and gives it another ten minutes. It's a different sport but the style of management is needed in our football team. Whilst the players go and enjoy a well deserved break what's he up to? He's going to work with a Tour de France team to see how they operate, how they coach, what statistics they analyse and how they get the best out of their riders. Thinking outside the box and striving to improve himself so he can improve England.
Woy's only ambition seemed to be to break the record for the number of centre forwards you could have on the pitch at any one time. Rooney, Sturridge, Kane, Vardy. Then Rashford comes on for Rooney. Should have kept him on to have all 5 of them on the pitch.
